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Suitability of Data for the Surveillance of Toxicological Events in Companion Animals
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There have been a number of non-infectious intoxication outbreaks reported in North American companion animal populations over the last decade. The most devastating outbreak to date was the 2007 melamine pet food contamination incident which… read more… of toxicological events in companion animals, and may be used for surveillance of pet food and environmental contamination events that may negatively impact both veterinary and human health. … of toxicological events in companion animals, and may be used for surveillance of pet food and environmental … -
Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis
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An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more… to form a profile or fingerprint. N-gram generation may require extensive processing time especially for large … the syndromic finger- prints. 44.97 2.09 1.9 81 0 25.78 5.26 95 0.18 7.59 14.23 85 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 … Profile Average similarity based on Accuracy Si m ila rit y an d ac cu ra cy ( % ) 100 Rash Reasons 100 Gastro Reasons …